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Manatee Springs, Florida

We dropped down to the Manatee Springs State Park in Florida hoping to be able to spot a manatee. Manatee’s are big lovable sea cows that swim up into the warmer waters of the river hot springs during winter. Don’t you just want to give one a hug?

Unfortunately we didn’t spot any manatees, but we did make some other friends of the forest…

We met the luckiest deer in Florida, who were very happy to be avoiding the guns and hounds of hunting season. They knew it too, walking right up to our tent to see what was going on. Meanwhile some cheeky raccoons kept us up most of the night as they performed acrobatics trying to get into our waterproof dog food bag (which is now not so waterproof).

Manatee Springs State Park was a detour off our ACA Southern Tier route, but well worth it. Swimming in the ‘hot springs’ (or more accurately ‘tepid springs’) among roosting vultures and gnarled oaks draped in Spanish Moss was magical.

Happy New Year to the adventurous 4🙂 So much for us meeting up in Mexico. We are far too slow!!! We will have to wait another 2 years I think…
Hope you are enjoying some sunshine and tasty food in Mexico. Look forward to catching up on your travels.

Hi Fin and Zoa, Jack and Paco. It was great to meet you and we’re happy to have found your website. Hope that you had a great day today and that you finally saw a manatee at Wakulla Springs. Please send us an email message as we’d like to talk with you about Tasmania.